Past Awardees

2023

The following will be updated soon with the awarded experimental time in 2023 under the 2022 Joint Call for Proposals.

2022

The following projects were awarded experimental time in 2022 under the 2021 Joint Call for Proposals.

BaPSF

1. “Characterizing the potential distribution in a magnetized plasma column under end-electrode biasing” (2 weeks)

R. Gueroult (PI), Laboratoire Plasma et Conversion d’Energie, CNRS, Université de Toulouse, France

N. J. Fisch and S. J. Zweben, Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory, USA

2. “Alfvén wave steepening observed in LAPD” (2 weeks)

A. Mallet (PI) and T. Bowen, Space Sciences Laboratory, UC Berkeley, Berkeley, CA

S. Dorfman and M. Abler, Space Sciences Laboratory, Space Science Institute, Los Angeles, CA

3. “Wave Excitation by Mildly Relativistic Electron Beam” (2 weeks)

Vadim Roytershteyn (PI), Space Sciences Institute, UC Berkeley, Berkeley, CA

4. “Impact of plasma species, neutral collisionality and parallel flows on drift wave turbulence in LAPD” (2 weeks)

S. Mordijck (PI), William & Mary, Department of Physics

B. Dudson, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory

N. Murphy, Center for Astrophysics, Harvard University

DIII-D Frontier Science

5. “Formation of Organic Compounds through Meteoritic Atmospheric Shock” (0.5 days)

Chris Mehta, Auburn University, AL

6. “Understanding explosive plasma reorganization via the tokamak sawtooth ” (0.5 days)

William Fox, Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory, NJ

7. “Quantify energy transfer during wave-particle resonant interactions ” (0.5 days)

Greg Howes, U Iowa, IA

8. “Physics of turbulent plasma boundary layer” (1 day)

Patrick Diamond, UC San Diego, CA

9. “Electron Cyclotron mode conversion in plasma with relativistic electrons ” (1 day)

Pavel Aleynikov, IPP, Germany

10. “Universal Properties of Energetic Electrons in Magnetic Islands” (1 day)

Eva Kostadinova, Auburn University, AL

11. “Whistler runaway ” (0.5 days)

Don Spong, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, TN

MPRL

12. “Probing the effect of gas pressure on grain-level processes (charging and ion drag) and grain phase-level processes (thermodynamic behavior) in dusty plasmas” (2 weeks)

Ranganathan Gopalakrishnan, University of Memphis, TN 

13. “Investigation of a sudden compression in a dusty plasma with increasing magnetic field” (2 weeks)

Jeremiah Williams, Wittenberg University, OH

14. “Understanding the melting dynamics of the plasma crystal under the influence of varying magnetic field” (2 weeks)

Surabhi Jaiswal, Eastern Michigan University, MI

15. “Machine learning of microparticle physics in magnetized plasmas” (2 weeks)

Zhehui (Jeph) Wang, Los Alamos National Laboratory, NM

16. “Overdense-to-Underdense Plasma Transition Effects on Plasma Impedance Probe Measurements  ” (2 weeks)

William Amatucci, Naval Research Laboratory, MD 

WiPPL

a. BRB

17. “Transport Properties of High-Beta Plasmas with Tangled Magnetic Field” (21 days in 2022 + 21 days in 2023)

Samuel Langendorf, Los Alasmos National Laboratory, NM

18. “Stability and Propagation of Magnetically-Driven Jets in High Beta Plasma Background - Unique Opportunities with the WiPPL Facility” (14 days in 2022 + 14 days in 2023)

Hui Li, Los Alamos National Laboratory, NM

19. “Turbulence, heating, and transport in the BRB” (14 days in 2022 + 28 days in 2023)

Jim Schroeder, Wheaton College, IL

20. “Solar system storms in the lab: creating a scaled interplanetary coronal mass ejection ” (28 days in 2022 + 28 days in 2023)

Rachel Young, U of Michigan, MI

b. MST

21. “Diagnostics and physics of the formation, growth and suppression of runway electrons (REs) during the ramp-up phase and steady state scenarios at MST” (10 days in 2022 + 10 days in 2023)

Luis F. Delgado-Aparicio, Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory, NJ

22. “Innovative Charged Particle Energy Analyzer & Measurement Enabling Study of Electric Potential, Electric Field, and Transport in Plasmas” (11 days in 2022 + 8 days in 2023)

Diane R. Demers, Xantho Technologies, WI

23. “Using Quantum Noise Correlation Analysis to Measure Ion Temperature” (6 days in 2022 + 6 days in 2023)

Daniel J. Dan Hartog, U of Wisconsin-Madison, WI

24. “Adapting High-Resolution X-Ray Microcalorimeter Spectrometers to Transform MFE Plasma Diagnostics ” (12 days in 2022 + 8 days in 2023)

Megan E. Eckart, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, CA

25. “Probe-based turbulence and transport studies in MST” (12 days in 2022 + 12 days in 2023)

Derek Thuecks, Washington College, MD

26. “Investigating the Dynamics of Canonical Flux Tubes with a Canonical Vorticity Probe” (10 days in 2022 + 20 days in 2023)

Jens von der Linden, Max Planck IPP, Germany